2012 Award Winners

I never got around to posting the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) postseason awards as they were announced. However, thanks to my negligence, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) has also voted on their awards! So, below is a handy table comparing the two associations' choices for 2012:

BBA

BBWAA

Connie Mack

AL: Bob Melvin

AL: Bob Melvin

Manager of

NL: Davey Johnson

NL: Davey Johnson

the Year

Willie Mays

AL: Mike Trout

AL: Mike Trout

Rookie of

NL: Bryce Harper

NL: Bryce Harper

the Year

Walter Johnson

AL: Justin Verlander

AL: David Price

Cy Young

NL: R.A. Dickey

NL: R.A. Dickey

Stan Musial

AL: Mike Trout

AL: Miguel Cabrera

MVP

NL: Buster Posey

NL: Buster Posey

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance also votes on the Goose Gossage award, given to each league's top reliever. This year Fernando Rodney was voted the AL winner, and Craig Kimbrel the NL winner. The Musings is a BBA member, and my ballot (AL only since I am a Mariners blog) can be found here.

The AL MVP debate has had more than enough words written about it at this point. I made my peace with the triple crown a few months ago, and won't write more, other than to note that the BBA picked Trout and the BBWAA picked Cabrera.